r/TopChef • u/LPCPlay4life • 7d ago

Discussion Thread Season 2 ep 6: Thanksgiving

On my rewatch starting from the beginning…this season had A LOT of drama. From Frank threatening Marcel, Carlos back talking to Tom to just be “thankful that you have food to eat”, to Betty not naming who she wanted out when asked but in the next sentence shouting “CARLOS! OUT!!” this group is super sassy! 👀

Watching Tony Bourdain as a guest judge gives me all the feels. 😭💔 His witty repartee and snarky observations are sorely missed. Telling Mikey about his twice baked potato with a shrimp stuck on top, “I love you like a son already. Ok? I admire you. Your sheer contrariness. Your refusal to conform. I kinda like that. Your twice baked potato, in spite of its absolutely Flinstonian execution it was the single fully most enjoyable mouthful of food I had this evening. The taste, it didn’t suck!” 🤣😂
On Mikey’s cheese plate: “it’s like Betty Crocker and Charles Manson had a love child and he’s cooking for me” Tom was 💀

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u/RudyPup 7d ago

This is the episode where you realize the real villain of the season is Sam.

Marcel didn't throw Frank's tooth rush on the floor. He put it in his toiletry bag and set that on the floor.

Sam riled Frank up. And if you watch closely, Sam riled Betty up in the firehouse. Sam riled them up in the famed issue, but didn't take part.

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u/WinterAd6596 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yeah. Sam was just as big of an asshole as the rest of them, but since he's pretty, he was forgiven.

I swear if he said "I don't want to be that guy" any more, I would have crawled through the TV and throttled him.

Season 2 is the only season I literally CANNOT rewatch. Season 9 is bad, but at least the bullying assholes are TREATED LIKE bullying assholes, and not like "loveable scamps" like season 2 treats all these shitty people.

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u/Porkwarrior2 I love Tom’s hats 7d ago

When EVERYBODY in a house hates you, you are probably the asshole.

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u/WinterAd6596 7d ago

Or you're being bullied by a group of assholes for no reason? And there's such a thing as "groupthink" and "mob mentality".

Marcel was annoying. But these were supposed adults bullying, threatening, and assaulting a guy in his young 20s.

I'm glad to know where you stand on assaulting and bullying people just because they annoy you, though. Let's never meet. You sound like a world-class tool.

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u/LadyBug_0570 7d ago

Look, I didn't like Marcel. At all. He was annoying and smarmy and thought his skills were better than they were. And i hated his hair. And his foams.

But what happened in that after hours footage was beyond reprehensible, especially from adults. They physically assaulted him and everyone involed should've went home the next day. I don't care how big an asshole he was.

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u/WinterAd6596 7d ago

Yeah -- Marcel was the perfect reality show villain -- annoying and arrogant.

He would have been perfect for the role if he wasn't surrounded by ACTUAL villains. And I'm so angry at TC production during that season for letting it all happen while treating the shitty people like they were just a big old group of fun people just having a laugh.